Shadowing Practice: Camila Mendes Gets Uncomfortable | The Diego Show - Learn English Speaking with Video
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uh hello um welcome to the diego show the the best podcast in in the whole wide mexico
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i'm diego your host
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and today we have a very very special guest camila mendez hi hello thank you for having me
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this is this is the first podcast i'm ever doing yeah congrats
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i'm super excited thank you i love the set okay
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so let's get into it um what's what's um what's what's your what's your phone number?
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I can't tell you that, Diego.
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Okay.
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I just forgot to shoot my shot.
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I have a fiance.
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Yeah.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We're going to get into that.
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Okay.
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I have a wife.
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I was just, I was just playing games.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Well, I've seen how you treat your wife. So cool.
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Well, we're off to a great start.
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Um, Camila Mendez.
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I mean, you do it all like actress, producer, actress, like how do you do so many things?
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um you know i have a great team of people
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that helped me get it done really yeah who are these people
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i mean my production uh company you know i have a team of people there right
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that helped me run the company so i'm very supported my fiancee helps
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and supports me
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and a lot of things yeah that's the second time
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you bring this guy up i'm just trying to make it clear that i'm taken
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okay next question um how long have you been acting camilla
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professionally yeah i've been acting since i was about 21 years old wow
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when i booked riverdale which was back in like 2016 that's
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so cool yeah you know i i actually auditioned for for some
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i auditioned for sesame street once you didn't i well i walked in there okay okay
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and there was like there was like the producers
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and they were like uh so so do you know your lines and i was
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like what lines
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and right yeah I never I never I never did it again yeah
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you got to know your lines before an audition to be honest I was hung over
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and I already have a bad memory you throw tequila in the mix
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you know right you know how it is probably not best to drink tequila before an audition no no
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I get it you mentioned Riverdale yeah
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so cool it's such a great show thank you you've seen
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it I've never seen it oh I turned I turned in I turned on the first episode uh -huh
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And they were just like, I don't know, the main guy has like red hair.
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And I was like, I'm out.
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Why?
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What do you have against redheads?
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Nothing.
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Nothing.
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I like redheads on females.
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On the males.
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You're not so crazy.
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It's a little like.
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So how do you like your males?
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What?
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What is your preference with males?
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How do you prefer them to look?
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I prefer them when they're women.
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Interesting. So...
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Cut that part out.
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Okay.
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So let's change the topic immediately.
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So where did you grow up?
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I grew up all over the place.
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I moved around a lot as a kid.
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Okay.
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Well, like your fondest memories are in what place?
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South Florida.
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South Florida?
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Miami, Fort Lauderdale.
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Yeah.
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A lot of Latinos over there, right?
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A lot of Latinos.
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Yep.
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Do you speak Spanish?
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No. I mean, I do speak it a little bit.
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I'm semi -fluent, but I speak Portuguese fluently.
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I'm Brazilian.
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Right, right, right.
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Yeah.
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You know, despite my accent, I don't speak Spanish.
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It confuses people because I have this thick accent and I'm from Mexico, but I don't speak Spanish.
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That makes sense.
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I dated a white
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Jewish guy once and he talked like he was Latino, but he wasn't at all. Did he speak Jewish?
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No. When I was in Mexico,
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the weird thing is that everyone spoke English because they were all trying to like prepare to come to the U .S.
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Right.
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And then I moved to L .A and everybody speaks Spanish.
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so like the lesson i learned was no no matter where you live um things are confusing
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that's a good lesson right yeah did did you go to college
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i did i went to nyu wow did you go to college um i went to los pobres middle school
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and that's where you finished that's about that's about where my academic career ends i see yeah
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but nyu's super expensive no nyu is very expensive yeah who paid for
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that um my dad did for the first two years
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and then he was like we got to take out loans i can't afford this anymore
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so then we took out loans first world problems first world problems
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so so wait
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so you you you had this beautiful home in miami daddy paid for college um
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you booked your riverdale audition you got famous yeah have you ever heard of the word struggle?
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Yes.
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Cool.
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Yeah.
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I related to the part where you said your dad was broke.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's the only part that sounded like a struggle.
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Everything else just sounded like a vacation.
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My whole family was broke.
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My whole family was broke.
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my whole family was broke yeah i heard you i'm just processing got
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it you you you're on riverdale for like what 23 seasons
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or something like
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that i was on for seven seasons seven see that's a lot of television it's a lot of television that's
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so cool yeah would you ever do a tv show like
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that i i prefer podcasts because it's a lot less effort
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and a lot more money right yeah
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you have to learn a lot of lines on a show like riverdale yeah
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i i could barely i could barely do this yeah and
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if you get one line wrong it's like terrible
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you have to get it right perfectly totally yeah such a such a such a hard life
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you live um i by the way congrats on masters of
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the universe thank you like a huge studio movie bro yeah like you're a movie star now i wouldn't say
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that but sure how would you describe
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that movie in one sentence um exhilarating oh one sentence for someone who
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and what word and i'm the stupid one sorry it's
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so rude one sentence one you want to you want to have a successful podcast right
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i don't know this might be this might be the first
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and last time you want to make sure your guests enjoy being on the podcast
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you know i'll ask you again then we'll edit it all right okay
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if you could describe masters of the universe in one sentence
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what would it be an action -packed fantasy adventure featuring a
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character called he -man who is the strongest man in the universe
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and needs to save his home planet as a sentence not an essay Jesus Christ
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if I had to describe my life in one sentence you wouldn't know an essay
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if it sat on your face by the way you keep talking about a fiance is it true
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that you are dating Rudy Manuscos yeah Rudy Mancusco
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Cus Rudy Mancuso so he's your fiance but you don't really know his name cool got Got it.
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So, but it's true.
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You're dating Rudy, Rudy Manuscos.
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Yes.
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Why?
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Um, because I love him.
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How, how, how, how did you guys meet?
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We met on a movie we did called Musica that he directed.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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And he plays himself in the movie.
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It's kind of semi autobiographical.
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Semi egotistical.
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Sure.
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I can't wait to not watch it.
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Are you ever going to have him on the podcast? um
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probably not only only good looking women for now okay
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you know how I met my wife how I was I was actually at the grocery store
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and and um I was looking for the alcohol section right
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and I needed some help so
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so I turn to my left in one of the aisles
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and I see literally like the most beautiful woman
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I've ever seen in my entire life like yeah well it wasn't my wife it was someone else
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but behind her was benita my wife or my now wife
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and and so i went up to her
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and i was like excuse me you know where the alcohol section is
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and she was like oh i i'm sorry i don't work here
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and i was like oh but do you know where it is
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and she was like well yeah it's an aisle four
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and i was like uh why didn't you just tell me the first time
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when i asked and she was like i didn't want you to think i worked here
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and i was like why does it matter so basically long story short
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the first time i ever talked to my wife was also our first argument how did it advance from there
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I feel like she understands me, you know?
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She's the master of my universe.
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That's really sweet.
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Not really.
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It makes me a slave.
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No, it doesn't.
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We'll cut that part out, too.
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Do you think you're good looking?
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Yeah.
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I think so, too.
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Thank you.
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What do you people say you look like, I guess, is what I'm wondering.
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If you ever get somebody, who do you get?
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I get Phoebe Tonkin.
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I feel like I'm a mix between
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Brad Pitt and El Chapo.
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I'm not seeing the Brad Pitt.
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This is going to sound a little bit weird, but I'm just going to be honest.
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You know when people say, oh, that person or that thing is such a pain in my ass?
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Imagine having a hand in your ass at all times.
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That's scary to you?
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Not that it's scary.
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What's scary is that I like it.
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That's what scares you do you believe in God?
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I do now.
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Yeah.
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You do now.
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I didn't always.
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You do.
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Ever since we sat down and started talking, you believe in God?
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I mean, this conversation may have changed my belief in God, but do you have to this point?
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Do you have a celebrity crush?
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Yeah.
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Let's hear it.
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Oscar Isaac.
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It kind of looks like me.
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You're right.
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I have a type.
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You have a type.
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Yeah.
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Short mustache, Latino you know my fiance has a mustache
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I made him get a mustache how many times
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we're gonna talk about this guy no one cares he made vines like 20 years ago no one cares anymore
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but I'm saying he got a mustache you should totally marry Shawn Mendes
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you know why why no one will ever know if you took his last name or if he took yours
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keep people on their toes i i've already have a fiance
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so i don't need to marry sean mendes
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which was your favorite spider -man tom holland um toby mcguire
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or what's the other one andrew garfunkel um
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i don't really have a particular connection to either of them mine was sydney sweeney of course
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it was do you have like a dream actor you'd love to work with Oscar Isaac.
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All roles lead back to Oscar.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Has Oscar ever won an Oscar?
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If he hasn't, he should have.
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Imagine he goes up there and the trophy is just him.
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I would take that trophy.
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Calm down.
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I thought you were engaged.
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The cool thing about your career, Camila, is that you're like so versatile, you know, like think about it,
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like teen drama, rom -com, now action adventure.
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Like what's next?
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what's next for you what's next um yeah that's what i said do you want me to answer the question
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that would be great sometime this year what's next was the question was
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that the question for the third time yes what's next what's next for your career you do
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so many you have done so many different genres like yeah yeah yeah
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so i'm getting to it i'm gonna answer it if you could just stop talking cool thank you um i did
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i did like next in your career do you want me to say in i'm about to answer
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but you just keep talking let me give you a little tip about i know
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this is your first time doing a podcast
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typically
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when you interview your guest it's like seen as very rude the best thing
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you can do as a host for a podcast is not speak
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when your guest is speaking oh i see i see okay let's try
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this again back up back it up back it up here we go
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so camilla you did so many you're
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so versatile you teen drama then rom -com
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then action adventure movie like what's next for you um what's next in your career what's next is
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that i'm doing the next because you've done
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so many movies i'm doing next in the i wrapped recently a production
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that i also produced what i missed the first part it's a silent film it's a silent film
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that has music in it and i'm playing the female lead really yes
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What does a silent film make?
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It's actually directed by a Mexican director named Carlos Lopez Estrada.
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Nobody asked.
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Do you know him?
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No, I don't.
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I don't.
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We don't all know each other.
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But I was just wondering, in this movie, when you say silent, you mean there's no dialogue?
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There's no dialogue.
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Sorry, nobody talks.
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No one talks.
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There's sound in it, like sound, but no one's speaking.
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Sorry, it's just that you didn't get an education past middle school, so I was just making sure.
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You were following what I was saying.
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Right, totally can't wait to watch a movie where no one
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speaks sounds riveting are you watching any like tv shows right
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now um yeah i'm actually watching jersey shore right
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now i'm jersey shore yeah elevated television right well
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it's in preparation for a role
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i'm shooting a movie called tommy karate pretty soon cool yeah
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i'm currently watching narcos are you gonna ask me more about the movie i'm shooting
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or not not particularly i got everything
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i need to know okay time to talk about me um
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i'm watching have you heard of narcos i have heard of narcos yeah
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i'm watching it it's like about drug cartel and you like that racism
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and corruption i'm also watching the show called um the fifa world cup
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i love the world cup yeah it's also it's also about racism
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i'm sorry i'm sorry about mexico not making it oh that's all right
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but wouldn't it be cool in the in the world cup
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if instead of red cards
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and like yellow cards the referee gave out green cards that'd be really cool right yeah
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i would play soccer immediately that's a great idea i joke around
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but making movies is not easy you know yeah like it's hard yeah
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and you're so young like
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when i was your I was like doing I was working like three construction jobs to provide for my family and
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and we live in such harsh conditions you know
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I was trying to get food on the table every day right um
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but you know make making movies is cool too
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it is really cool struggle
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it's a struggle Camila would you be interested in doing a rapid fire questions yes
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you down I'm down here we go rapid -fire questions with Camila Mendes.
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Fame or privacy?
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Privacy.
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Money or free time?
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Free time.
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Oscars or box office?
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Oscars.
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Text or call?
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Text.
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Beach or mountains?
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Beach.
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What's your favorite color?
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Green.
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What's the biggest red flag in a relationship?
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I think if he's a puppeteer.
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i think just like guys who have puppets it's kind of weird
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but the puppet themselves are okay yeah no the puppets are great okay imagine taking
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a guy home to your dad and being like he's a puppeteer you know what did you do today
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today i woke up i worked out i got ready for a zoom meeting did the meeting
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and then i got ready for this today i woke up i um i went on chat chippy chichi
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and i and i looked up i asked what's the easiest laziest way to make a lot of money
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and i said make a podcast do a podcast put on YouTube
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and here we are here we are see for someone who didn't make
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it past middle school you're doing pretty well where do you wait that's the fourth time you brought
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that up what where do you see yourself have five years
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um with a family hmm yeah raising kids living a nice little wholesome life
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I I see myself divorced Diego relationships you're about to get married right yeah a word of advice don't
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okay it's not very good advice guys this was a community
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this has been a pleasure um you're you're just the best you're
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so talented you're so beautiful um thank you ladies and gentlemen
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that was Camila Mendes on the Diego show you heard
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it you heard it you saw it here first you you heard it here
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so thank you for watching this has been how do i close
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this i think you're doing a great job yeah
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you want to close it for me yeah okay
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you do it um thank you for watching the diego show i need a drink
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Camila Mendes Gets Uncomfortable”. This video has 332 sentences and 2951 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:28. The speaker talks at a natural 179 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| audition noun | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent. |
| silent adjective | /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/ | Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. |
| adventure noun | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| puppet noun | /ˈpʌpɪt/ | Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| actress noun | /ˈæk.tɹɪs/ | A female who performs on the stage or in films. |
| producer noun | /pɹəˈdjuːsə/ | An individual or organization that creates goods and services. |
| congratulations | /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/ | Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation. |
| marry verb | /ˈmæɹi/ | To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. |
| rapid adjective | /ˈɹæp.ɪd/ | Very swift or quick. |
| privacy noun | /ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/ | The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others. |
| shore noun | /ʃɔɹ/ | Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond. |
| dialogue noun | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| take out verb | To remove. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| calm down verb | To become less excited, intense, or angry. | |
| give out verb | To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. | |
| look up verb | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | To have better prospects. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What do you have against redheads?
- What is your preference with males?
- How do you prefer them to look?
- How, how, how, how did you guys meet?
- Do you think you're good looking?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have you been acting · i've been acting |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've seen · you've seen · I've never seen |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | riverdale which was · man who is · guys who have |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best · your fondest · the strongest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 100 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, corruption /kəˈɹʌpʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, puppeteer /ˌpʌpəˈtɪ(ə)ɹ/, autobiographical /ˌɑtoʊˌbaɪəˈɡɹæfəkəl/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like podcast, audition, silent.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.